Love Marriage by V. V. Ganeshananthan This debut novel tells the story of Yalini, a young woman who was born in the United States to parents who grew up in Sri Lanka. What makes her parents special is that they had a Love Marriage. They fell in love and decided to marry on their own. [...]
#73 ~ Eats, Shoots & Leaves
30 May By 10 Comments
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss Never before have I read a book about grammar or punctuation that regularly made me laugh out loud until I picked up this book. Although it is about grammar and punctuation it, in a way, reads like a great memoir. I had [...]
BTT Reading, Fundamentally
29 May By 7 Comments
This short week has me all off kilter. Sorry for posting this so late putting up my post for Booking Through Thursday. A special thanks to Devourer or Books, whose excellent post on this week’s question reminded of what day it is. What is reading, anyway? Novels, comics, graphic novels, manga, e-books, audiobooks — which [...]
Book Awards Challenge II 10 Chosen Books
28 May By 4 Comments
After careful consideration, I was able to come up with my 10 books for the Book Awards Challenge II. There were a couple of things I thought about when I made my choices. I already own enough books (for now). I didn’t want to be compelled to buy any more. So, as I was reading [...]
Book Awards Reading Challenge II
27 May By 2 Comments
Through Joy’s Blog, I discovered a link to the Book Award Reading Challenge blog. They are getting ready to start a 10 award winning book challenge over 10 months (August 1, 2008 through June 1, 2009). There are a few simple rules, the most significant being that the books qualifying for the challenge must come [...]
Tuesday Thingers
27 May By 10 Comments
Brought to us by The Boston Bibliophile: So the question this week is- how many books do you have cataloged in your LibraryThing account? How do you decide what to include- everything you have, everything you’ve read- and are there things you leave off? I have 353 books cataloged on my LibraryThing account. I have [...]
What Books Are You?
27 May By 11 Comments
Thanks to Devourer of Books, I now know that: I’m A Prayer for Owen Meany! by John Irving Despite humble and perhaps literally small beginnings, you inspire faith in almost everyone you know. You are an agent of higher powers, and you manifest this fact in mysterious and loud ways. A sense of destiny pervades [...]
My Inner Archaeologist
27 May By 7 Comments
When I was in the 7th grade I decided that I wanted to be an archaeologist. I cannot remember for the life of me what it was that triggered my interest in this adventurous and unusual career. In the 8th grade my middle school offered a week long camp and one of the activities was [...]
#72 ~ Trauma
23 May By 6 Comments
Trauma by Patrick McGrath Trauma tells the story of Charlie, a divorced psychiatrist who specializes in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Charlie has spent his life taking care of his mentally ill mother and a brother-in-law who suffered from PTSD as a result of his tours of duty in Vietnam. After his brother-in-law dies, he ends [...]
#71 ~ Last Night at the Lobster
22 May By 9 Comments
Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O’Nan It’s been a long time since I’ve read a novella. I actually can’t recall the last one I read. Stewart O’Nan certainly breathes life back into this genre for me with Last Night at the Lobster, the story of Manny, a New England Red Lobster manager coming [...]
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